Box 29

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Correspondence concerning labor legislation including minimum wage and hour law, textile workers, unemployment, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Correspondence requesting for the continued use of German prisoners for labor in the Southern States until the labor shortage ended.

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Correspondence concerning legislation to outlaw labor strikes in defense industries.

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Correspondence and reports from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the effects of allocating certain short-wave radio frequency bands for high frequency medical equipment such as diathermy apparatus. Also included is a letter in support of the creation of a National Neuropsychiatric Institute.

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A letter requesting support for legislation (H.R. 1966) to establish a "Memorial to Motherhood."

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Correspondence concerning a proposed merger of the United States Army and Navy into a single entity. Some in Charleston are opposed to the plan due to concern for the effects on the Charleston Navy Yard.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and reports concerning meetings and legislation brought before the Senate Military Affairs Committee including the induction of nurses into the armed forces by the Selective Service, the military government of occupied Germany, American prisoners of war in Germany, war plants disposal, surplus property, reorganization of the military medical services and their coordination into civilian medicine, and strategic stockpiling. Also included is a catalog of courses for the Army...